“"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.”
Source: Before the Throne
Illness Quotes
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Illness Quotes
Source: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
“But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”
“Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.”
“Age and illness made one a dualist”
Source: The Wind's Twelve Quarters
“Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.”
“Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East
“For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.”
“Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.”
Source: Mr. Sammler's Planet
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick”
Source: Five plays
“The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.”
Source: It's Always Something
“When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.”
“Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.”
Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection
“It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
“Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.”
“Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.”
“The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.”
Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.
“Make sickness itself a prayer.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]